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| Information Superhighway | Term that describes a large network connecting businesses, other institutions, and home users. Some people say that the Internet is the precursor to this., |
| Internet | A network of networks. This contains more that 100,000 networks representing millions of individual computer users. It is global with connections in over sixty countries worldwide. No single organization controls the growth, development, and operations of the this., |
| Kbps | A measure of data transfer speed over Internet connections. Modems are usually measured with this type of speed which is equivalent to 1,000 bits per second., |
| Local Area Network | A communications network spanning a room or building. This contains a server, individual workstations, communications cable, and network shared resources such as a high-speed printer, CD-ROM drive, communications gateway, and so forth., |
| Mbps | A measure of data transfer speed which is equivalent to 1 million bits per second. Network transmission speeds is generally measured in this type of measurement., |
| NAPs | The high-speed communication channels that serve as the backbone of the Internet, carrying data between cities and continents. This is comprised of four major commercial providers such as Sprint (New York), MFS (Washington, D.C.), AmeriTech (Chicago) and PacBell (San Francisco) provide these mid-level networks., |
| Network | When you have two or more computers connected together. It is a system of data communication channels, software, and hardware resources that work together to facilitate exchange of information., |
| Packet | A small portion of a computer message that is transferred across a network such as the Internet. TCP/IP is responsible for splitting the message into these small portions and transporting them without error from the sender to the receiver., |
| Server | A host computer that provides information to other computers that are called clients. A local area network has this hardware on which users store data. There are special types of this which stores home pages and transmits them to clients on demand., |
| Shared Resource | Typically a network resource such as a file server, tape drive, printer, or communications gateway that is used by many users., |
| Stand-Alone Computer | A client computer that is not attached to a network., |
| Store and Forward | The technique in which a packet is received at an intermediate node, stored for a short time, and then forwarded toward its destination. Consecutive packets may not follow the same physical path., |
| Surfing the Internet | A slang term representing the way many people use the Internet. A user will visit a particular page and then follow a particular link. When reaching that page, the user might find more useful or interesting information and follow more links. In this way you may end up far from where you started. This is the way in which much useful information is discovered., |
| Telnet | This is a way to perform a remote login to another computer on the Internet, which then functions as if you were standing directly in front of that particular computer.., |
| Viewer | A software program used to display the contents of a certain kind of application file., |
| Wide Area Network | A network that covers an area larger than a building or campus. This includes networks covering cities, states, and even continents., |
| Workstation | Another term for client computer. This represents a user's computer that is usually attached to a network., |
| World Wide Web (WWW) | This portion of the Internet is used for hypertext documents that include multimedia contents. View Web documents with a browser such as Netscape or Mosaic. Most Web documents are prefixed with http:., |
